Does anyone here use Patreon successfully? I’ve started an account to try to gain financial support to pay my studio rent but I’m not entirely sure how it works. I can see people making $2000 a month from people paying […]
Insight into this talented trio
Edinburgh Art Festival has announced the four artists and collectives from across Scotland selected to participate in its programme dedicated to supporting artists at the beginning of their careers.
Dale Lewis is one of three Jerwood Painting Fellows currently exhibiting work at Jerwood Space, London. He talks to Fisun Guner about working with mentor Dan Coombs, his mind-crushing experience as an artist’s assistant, and what inspires his open, chaotic and darkly humorous paintings.
I am weaving between historic traditions on a very personal and shared journey that engages my practice with local artists and the global art world that passes through Asia.
Large figure weighing in at around eighty kg, very heavy and a nightmare to break into. Eventually got there, and the figures have turned out interesting.
Finally this piece is finished apart from background stainless steel disk for her to be mounted on to. The cast of my face has been honed down on forehead and nose to give a more deer like appearance and takes […]
We now have only 3 days to set up our degree show and there is a weird mixture of stress and excitement. The stress has come from worrying about framing all of my work and was not helped when a […]
Never know really what to say for a blog or have the greatest communication with words. That what drives me insane with my dyslexia. I know how to write critically or how to go on with a review explaining and […]
From their inception my diagram poems have been an exercise in recontextualising readymade text and exploring the new meanings that creates. Bringing these previously unconnected words and phrases together makes space for new interpretations and redistributes the weight given to words […]
AUDIOBLOG – Please click here I find myself in full-on music mode this week. I’ve had a morning writing and rehearsing with my wonderful band mate and co-writer on several songs, Ian Sutherland… He has an album out soon, I’ll […]
Inspired by ’60s radicalism yet rooted in the contemporary climate of austerity and the commercialisation of art school education, the second Antiuniversity Now! festival offers an alternative to mainstream models of learning through four days of free events, activities and lectures across the UK. Lydia Ashman reports.
On Tuesday I went for a trip to london I soon found myself walking the streets, reminiscing in my mind about the times I use to make these trips with my parents. (It seems like such a long time ago. […]
I can feel I’m starting to free up, thinking about now and not the end result, enjoying experimenting for its own sake. Painting on paper for the first time in a long time, trying to keep things fresh and not […]
The footage was examined in a similar way I’d feel clay , the narrative was built from the research and footage, and needs work but it’s something I can toy with. An egg made up of protein, similar in […]
So far I’ve had three curatorial critique sessions in Manchester and Leeds and am preparing for a fourth in Liverpool this week. All the sessions have been fantastic – inspirational and motivating – more details coming soon!
After a few weekends of editing I have completed some of my tracks for the Interpretation Internship work. Six are finished to date – these all incorporate field recordings, creative writings that have been recorded as spoken word and recordings […]
Outside It’s somewhere (?) a distant place I believe it’s green, but I’m colour blind There’s a window in the distance. I can see it, like a pin prick, but I know it’s a window And it’s cold outside
Pollination , nature What is nature? Malleable Yellow , black
